The Big City

22 Sep 2013

More and more of us live in cities. As of 2010, more than half the world's people lived in an urban area. By 2030, 6 out of every 10 people will live in a city. That's very different from the past 100,000 years or so, and it's happening very fast. So what's it doing to us?

Here's what a few people smarter than I had to say about it. I collect here the following thoughts about cities (and food for thought) and will refrain from drawing my own tawdry conclusions:

"The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots." - Bob Dylan

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost." - Hubert H. Humphrey